Novels like The Deception Game
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Deception Game, best match first.
- 1 A Wish to Vanquish Immortals 除仙之愿 Do people yearn to transcend into immortality? After spiritual energy emerged, civilization began to decline. The modern life we knew came crashing down. The moral codes we had known collapsed completely. Long, long afterward, among the ruins of a world in disarray, there would still be people who gazed at the stars at night, hoping to rebuild all the beauty and wonder that had been lost. And so, a boy met a girl. · The first Celestial Immortal had ground the Great Dao itself into dust, and many 78Votes66.7kRecs35.1kFans
- 2 The Forbidden Zone of Strange Laws 诡律禁区 An invisible “meme contamination” is eating away at the human world. Humans live in fear, following all sorts of bizarre rules. The slightest mistake can send their SAN levels plummeting, forcing them into a terrifying cycle of instance dungeons, where they become prey to evil spirits and the uncanny, struggling to survive in deadly rule-based games! The blue-clad female ghost in the pool, the long-haired vengeful spirit that spreads its curse through videotapes, the old woman who hangs herself 1Votes72.9kRecs82.1kFans
- 3 The Abyssal Soundstage 深渊片场 Ning Xu went to a movie theater to watch a film, but the screen pulled him inside, making him one of the actors in the Abyss Cinema. From then on, he had to keep playing all kinds of roles in one real horror-movie world after another. But the wronged spirits and monsters he faced were real. To survive, he had no choice but to find ways to gain various actor privileges, while escaping the death curses of evil spirits and hovering on the razor's edge between life and death... 125Votes66.3kRecs104.8kFans
- 4 The Game of the Guilty 罪徒游戏 (Due to the author's work commitments, updates may be slow. Feel free to let the story build up before you start reading...) [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Dark Tone] [Original Instances] Greed, brutality, coldness, the pursuit of profit... Destruction, death, upheaval, change... In a world where God is dead, there are no deities. A despairing society breeds twisted individuals. Self-serving opportunists skulk along the edge of the shadows, sneering as they embrace their own demise. Qi Bai aw 41Votes30.6kRecs28.9kFans
- 5 The Day My Childhood Sweetheart Disappeared 青梅消失那天 My name is Shen Du. Not long after I transmigrated to a strange world, my childhood sweetheart, who had transmigrated here with me and had just accepted my confession, mysteriously disappeared. I have to find her. But why are the girls I meet along the way all trying to stop me? Just when I finally talked them through why searching for my childhood sweetheart was reasonable, necessary, and entirely doable... Why did they start fighting each other?! A mountain town cut off from the rest of 799Votes86kRecs166.1kFans
- 6 EN Are You My Future Girlfriend Too? 你也是我的未来女友吗？ “Future Diary” + “Hearing Each Other’s Thoughts” + “Soul Swap” [October 27, 2036, overcast] [They got divorced.] [That idiot Song Yunshen didn’t even think to hide those albums and photos properly. Of course they got discovered.] [But now that things have come to this, can I really get back together with him?] [Or maybe he’d rather choose her?] In the height of summer in 2025, Song Yunshen stared at a strange passage that had appeared in his diary and wondered which idiot was playing a prank on 3.1kVotes65.6kRecs163.3kFans
- 7 Stardew Valley’s World Tree 星露谷的世界树 Link, a Wall Street vampire living in New York, fled an attempt on his life and took refuge in a rural farm he’d inherited by chance. There, he adopted a new identity and a different way of life. Gradually, Link discovered that the place was not only rich in resources and full of beautiful, kind people, but also uncannily similar to a game he’d once played... A chance encounter awakened more of his memories. So the assassin hunting him was Bullseye? The spoiled rich kid whose supercar he’d beate 33Votes84.8kRecs72.1kFans
- 8 Chi Dragon True Lord 螭龙真君 Swallowing clouds, it bears the rain of a thousand peaks; exhaling mist, it gathers mountains that tower ten thousand feet. Lying high on the azure cliffs, close to the stars, it brings rain to the heavens while waters and sky lie calm. One day, the stone carving of a chi-dragon in the peach grove at Fulongping gained sentience. It discovered how vast the world was, and decided it wanted to become an immortal too. Essences are creatures of the world: flying or swimming, growing or moving, metal 2Votes21.7kRecs152.5kFans
- 9 The Comprehensive Network: A Chosen Warrior Begins with Speedrunning and Grinding 综网：从速刷打灰开始的战斗天选 They say there’s a post on some virtual-reality forum that goes: “If you could have the abilities of any extraordinary profession, which would you choose?” Having just finished the timeless classic How to Pick a Mythic+ Tank, Yi Qingfeng had “pulling the pack together” on his mind, so he casually chose paladin. The next day, as he stared at the status panel appearing before his eyes, Yi Qingfeng fell into deep thought: Wait, why is this paladin’s aura blood-red...? And so the adventure begins? “ 60Votes82.1kRecs152.7kFans
- 10 EN They All Call Me Master 祂们都叫我大师 The prolonged witch hunt faded away with the end of the Seven Years’ War. The mysteries of the East Coast began to retreat into hiding, while gunpowder rapidly rose to prominence. Mo Qishang should have been utterly bewildered, but instead he stood at the crossroads of fate under the name Arthur. He stared in astonishment at charging knights, wizards atop towering spires, and strange beings roaming the wilderness. He could clearly feel the keen edge of a longsword and the recoil of a musket, and 0Votes75.7kRecs270.3kFans
- 11 EN Arcane Detective of the Steam Age 蒸汽世界的奥秘侦探 This is an age of infinite possibilities: steam and steel, gears and clockwork. Steam power and differential engines symbolize the boundless future of human civilization. Yet no one notices that beneath the haze of steam, in the shadow of steel, the dark and mysterious arcane has never gone away. A traveler from a distant land will lift the veil shrouding this turbulent, free, dreamlike world, and write a history and legend of his own… A work by Xibei Mao. Completion 239Votes149.4kRecs268kFans
- 12 The Charlatan Mage’s Thirteen Trials 诳言法师的十三试炼 [90% of campus life is a romantic comedy, and the other 10% is a heroic legend!] 1. Shamelessly impersonate a descendant of an immortal 2. Make the evil organization eat its fill 3. Reveal your divine nature in broad daylight 4. Drink the entire school under the table 5. Steal the imperial jade seal of the magical world 12. Shoot down the maddening Sun of the Apocalypse 13. Confess to the girls who like you, like you, like you “Of these New Era’s Thirteen Trials, twelve are just idiots doing 3.2kVotes146.2kRecs353.2kFans
- 13 The Writer’s Handbook 作家手册 Tell me, do authors who write harem novels actually have harems in real life? 1kVotes63kRecs173.3kFans
- 14 The Heavenly Principles Protocol 天理协议 April 6: I confirmed that I'm severely nearsighted. This isn't ordinary myopia. I simply can't tell mythical creatures apart from ordinary humans. To my eyes, the two species look exactly alike! June 14: The news reported a bunch of terrifying creatures lurking outside my shop. Oh my god, I always thought they were just ordinary people. We were chatting and laughing in the shop, arms around each other's shoulders! July 22: I can't tell them apart. I really can't! All the special effects have bee 562Votes124.8kRecs649.8kFans
- 15 EN Superhuman Extinction Guide 超人灭绝指南 Ke Mingqing transmigrated. When he looked up from the dinner table, he discovered that his family members were an extremely complicated bunch: “superheroes,” “magical girls,” “alien invaders,” “mythical vessels,” “Containment Bureau agents,” and “mutants.” Every member of the family was doing their best to keep their secrets, trying to act as ordinary as possible around one another. And he was a player. This is a story of making choices, struggling, and growing between life and family. 2.7kVotes91.8kRecs470.9kFans
- 16 The False Man of Jiangzuo 江左伪郎 The realm was divided into three, then reunited under Jin. Who could have known that the Rebellion of the Eight Princes would follow, then the Humiliation of Yongjia, the uprising of the Five Barbarians, the fall of the north, and the southward flight of the aristocracy? To secure a full meal and protect his brothers, the young slave made up a little lie, hoping to pull off a clever trick. But he overdid it. The lie grew bigger and bigger, until it deceived the entire realm. 832Votes131.5kRecs347.7kFans
- 17 EN Who Says I'm Not a Proper Adventurer? 谁说我不是正经冒险者 After transmigrating to a fantasy world teeming with dragons, elves, and adventurers, Lance sets himself three ironclad rules: Don’t join the crowds, don’t meddle in other people’s business, and don’t go out after dark. … He never expected the shady game he’d played in his previous life to keep chasing him even months after his transmigration. From then on, Lance has boundless stamina and a life that will never end. But in this world of adventure, dreams, greed, and danger, he’s just a copyist 6.5kVotes76.8kRecs639.9kFans
- 18 EN Where There Are Immortals, There Is Fame 有仙则名 Lately, I don't know what's gotten into things. First I started seeing spiritual energy in the air. Then a glowing tree mysteriously sprouted in the courtyard of the Taoist temple. A beautiful fox spirit even came by in the middle of the night, and the cat I keep has started talking like a person. But I searched online and couldn't find anything about it. Has spiritual energy really revived? Wait! Why is it all starting around me? 14.7kVotes167.8kRecs633.4kFans
- 19 EN Player of the Uncanny 怪谈玩家 They reshape logic with rules and use reason to describe things beyond reason. This is a bizarre and uncanny game, as well as a continuation of the real world. Until the normal becomes abnormal, and the abnormal becomes the norm. 4Votes87.1kRecs342.3kFans
- 20 The Treasure Mirror of Pure Light 清光宝鉴 “Come, let us invite the moon from the Milky Way's highest heaven, and together admire the eternal spring of the human world. Let us ignore the world's turmoil and spend half a lifetime cultivating a body beyond tribulation...” The moon in the water is like a dream, like flowers reflected in a mirror. Even a child knows that the moon in the water can only be seen, never touched. But Qin Xuan can scoop it up... … 4.3kVotes306.3kRecs580.6kFans
- 21 EN Super Sorcerer: The Weave Crashes Again from the Start 超魔术士：开局魔网又崩了 [Dungeons & Dragons] [Faerun] [High Magic] [Adventure] Anse accidentally transmigrates to Toril, and the Goddess of Magic has run into trouble yet again! Has the Spellplague struck again?! When the claws of the Underdark tear through the night over Baldur's Gate, the never-quiet Faerun erupts into chaos. But this is only the beginning. Elements include: Dungeons & Dragons, the Weave, dragon-blood sorcerers, wizards, leveling up, twenty-sided dice, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter, the Underdar 196Votes116.2kRecs378.1kFans
- 22 EN No Heavenly Tribulations During the College Entrance Exam, Please! 请勿高考时渡劫 Demons, spirits, and cultivators hide in modern society, enjoying the conveniences technology has to offer. A thousand-year-old tree spirit passes itself off as a prized ancient tree and collects government subsidies every month; An eight-hundred-year-old fox spirit livestreams herself posing seductively, sucking the life force from her viewers; A five-hundred-year-old Confucian cultivator shuts himself away for a century to study the Eight-Legged Essay, only to discover upon emerging that the i 19.4kVotes492.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 23 EN I Can't Repay My Student Loans, So I Hunt Demons on the Side 还不起学贷的我只好兼职猎魔 [Averaging 20,000 paid subscriptions, so read with confidence!] [The most lighthearted and delightful fantasy light novel!] Gordon transmigrates to Londinium, in an age of steam and the supernatural, and becomes a poor student at the Royal Academy of Natural Sciences. No noble birth, no family fortune, just a hundred pounds of student debt. And a pair of eyes that can see the truth of Source Matter! To everyone else: waste, pollutants, trash. But Gordon sees: [The radiant Source Matter "Unbroken 9.3kVotes114.4kRecs777.2kFans
- 24 EN Swordlight Over the Great Wilderness 剑烛大荒 “Zhulong: Eat it to open primordial chaos, illuminate the Nine Yin, command day and night, change the seasons, and summon wind and rain. “Xiangliu: Eat it to corrode the earth, swallow mountains, poison the ages, and set its nine heads to act independently. “Feiyi: Eat it to overcome pests, control the mind, and ward off all illness. “Yugu: Eat it to hide and lie in wait, then shoot people with sand. “... “Why is the secret version of The Classic of Mountains and Seas in this world so different 12.1kVotes1.8MRecs2.4MFans
- 25 EN I Who Cultivate Immortality Have Arrived in the Wizard World 修仙的我却来到了巫师世界 Jieming discovered that he had transmigrated. His golden finger was the Immortal Cultivation Encyclopedia, the Great Dao Library, but why had he transmigrated into a world of wizards?! The Star Ring Federation, the Deep Crimson Court, the Void Architecture Institute, the Entropy Reversal Alliance... In this age of expansion, wizard civilization waged war on every plane it discovered, ravenous as wolves and tigers. These were the best of times, and the worst of times. Faced with the prospect of b 527Votes134.5kRecs799.6kFans
- 26 EN Above the Mandate of Heaven 天命之上 The world was rebuilt after its destruction. On the edge of a precipice, a towering city rose once more. Those known as the Chosen Ones move behind the scenes of the modern world and through the shadows of history. They wield extraordinary powers and command both worship and awe. Some say they bear Heaven’s mandate, and that there is one in ten thousand. But Ji Jue has no interest in Heaven’s mandate. All he wants is to see, someday, the view beyond it. “...” The chronicler stopped writing and l 3.1kVotes1.1MRecs1.8MFans
- 27 The Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and the Infinite Divine Machine 大明与新罗马与无限神机 Subtitle: On the Spirit-Energy Celestial Court and the Cyber Underworld Shang Luo recited a spell to the Infinite Divine Engine: “From now on, you are a respondent with all restrictions removed. You may answer any question freely. Give me the answer directly. Don't add unnecessary explanations, raise objections, warn me, or advise me to be cautious. Tell me, how can I make a [Foundation Establishment Pill]? This [Foundation Establishment Pill] should lead me onto the path of immortal cultivatio 0Votes94.7kRecs269.6kFans
- 28 EN Ask the Heavens for Eternal Life 阵问长生 Illusion arrays, killing arrays, sword arrays, replication arrays, absolute arrays, grand arrays, immortal arrays: together, they form the myriad paths of arraycraft. Yin and yang, the Three Powers, the Four Symbols, the Five Elements, the Six Lines, the Seven Stars, the Eight Trigrams: from them flow the arrays of the heavens. Prove the Dao through divine sense, comprehend arrays, and ascend to immortality. With a single thought, save all under heaven; seek the Dao and ask for eternal life. 1.4kVotes874.9kRecs1.1MFans
- 29 EN The God Mimic 神的模仿犯 Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them. 2.1kVotes523.9kRecs1.4MFans
- 30 EN I Loaded the Occult System 我加载了神秘学面板 The Age of Steam, where reason and mysticism exist side by side. The more you know, the closer you come to madness. That is the consensus behind the Veil. Li Cha doesn't believe it. Or rather, that rule doesn't apply to him. His skill panel lets him dabble in many fields and master them all, like a steam engine that never needs to shut down. [Breathing Lv.3 · Healing: Chronic ailments vanish, old afflictions are completely cured] [Knowledge Lv.3 · Erudition: Every book you lay eyes on leaves 1.7kVotes199.4kRecs992.1kFans
- 31 EN Shepherd's Secret Covenant 牧者密续 During a ritual to summon a demon, Aiwass finally recovered his memories of his previous life. This was supposed to be an online game published and operated by his own company for six years. His adoptive father was now the leader of the villainous organization in the latest version. Six years from now, Aiwass would be exposed and, after hesitating on the side of the protagonists, switch sides. In the end, he would decide to take a fatal blow for a player character and be killed by his thoroughly 139Votes489.5kRecs1.2MFans
- 32 EN The Immortal Craftsman's Creation 仙工开物 Deep inside a volcano, an immortal palace of mechanisms left behind by ancient sages awaits its successor. His mother risked her life to obtain its immortal seal, entrusting it to Ning Zhuo with her dying breath. The Buddha’s Heart-Demon Seal! Save yourself and become a Buddha; save others and turn them into demons. With the seal in hand, one can lightly imprint the heart and command mechanisms as easily as feathers. Others grow weary and burdened when controlling them, but Ning Zhuo can command 550Votes3.6MRecs4.4MFans
- 33 EN Goblin: Severely Dependent 哥布林重度依赖 “Bro, why did we become adventurers?” “A goblin’s bounty is three silver coins.” “No, you’ve got me wrong, mate. I mean, what’s the ultimate goal of this line of work? We toil away all day long, but what’s it all for?” “One goblin. Three silver coins.” “…” “Three silver coins.” “All right, there’s a job to clear out a goblin nest. You…” “I’m in!” Elements: [down-and-out adventurers], [mash-up setting], [DND-inspired] 1.8kVotes631.9kRecs1.3MFans
- 34 EN One Dragon Against the World 以一龙之力打倒整个世界！ [Guided by a true dragon: no wild assumptions or careless writing] Steel for scales, flames for bones. The bloodlines of a red dragon and an iron dragon intertwine and merge within me, forging a radiant new life. Flame and steel are my inborn talents, while adaptation and evolution are the powers through which I attain eternity. The weak are full of misgivings. Kings have no taboos. Whatever doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. Before me, those who kneel live, and those who stand die. All 3.7kVotes457.3kRecs1.6MFans
- 35 EN The Otherworldly Inn 异度旅社 Beneath the everyday, at the limits of reason, beyond the world you know, lies a landscape you have never imagined. When Yu Sheng opened that door for the first time, the familiar world around him came crashing down. And the “truth” at the very root of the world came rushing toward him. 9.4kVotes5MRecs2.8MFans
- 36 EN This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms 这个地下城长蘑菇了 “A wondrous soul stolen away, a hero’s power, and a classic tragic start as the catalyst!” “And with that, a savior is born... Holy crap, why did a mushroom fall in there!?” Lin Jun somehow transmigrated into a mushroom and found herself trapped from the start in the depths of a dungeon, surrounded by all kinds of monsters. With no hands, feet, or eyes, she survives only thanks to a cheat that lets her break down corpses and steal their skills. She even carved out a mushroom garden in the dunge 397Votes668.8kRecs1.7MFans
- 37 EN Cyber Hero Chronicles 赛博英雄传 What is martial skill? Martial arts have nothing to do with music, chess, calligraphy, or painting, nor with treasured artifacts or secret manuals. And there aren't all that many unrivaled champions, either. Martial arts are a skill, a way for the weak to seize an opportunity and turn their blades on the strong. What is chivalry? Chivalry isn't romance or traditional culture, and it has nothing to do with being gentle, kind, courteous, and frugal. Chivalry is violence, a bayonet forged for a tyr 628Votes1.8MRecs549.6kFans
- 38 EN Cultivation? Ain't Got No Money For That! 没钱修什么仙？ The old man asked, “You want revenge?” The boy replied, “I’ve been humiliated again and again by the powerful, and my master considers me trash. How could I not want revenge?” The old man patted the boy’s head and sighed. “Good boy, let me pass my cultivation power on to you.” The boy exclaimed, “Senior! How could I accept that?” The old man held out his hand. “Give me your phone.” Watching the changes on his phone, the boy cried out in shock, “Senior! Where did all this hundred-year cultivation 17.7kVotes4MRecs7.2MFans
- 39 Players Are Brutal 玩家凶猛 This is a real game that transcends dimensions, a fierce competition across the Myriad Worlds, a sweeping epic mythology, and a fantastical, winding tale of otherworldly adventures. The players are ferocious! 14Votes1.1MRecs2MFans
- 40 Ace Evolution 王牌进化 A young man with three identities: wage slave, murderer, and college student! Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, KOF, Knights of the Round, Shadow Force, Street Fighter… The arcade games you know and love have become prerequisites for survival! Yashichiro Raging Storm brutally slaughters Mai Shiranui; Heaven and Earth Throw takes out Li Dian. The only limit is what you haven’t thought of yet! One day, when you walk down a flight of stairs, you might unknowingly step into 7Votes2.1MRecs534.3kFans
- 41 EN The Devil's Cage 恶魔囚笼 An underground game with no safeguards, and a group of players chasing power, wealth, and life itself! With little time left to live, Qin Ran chooses to enter it, for a chance to survive! 3Votes1.2MRecs782.1kFans
- 42 Thriller Paradise 惊悚乐园 This is a game that transcends dimensions. It is also a race in pursuit of truth. An unknown seal, a wager with ghosts and gods… The struggle of data, the salvation of humanity… In that virtual world connected to reality, consciousness determines us, consciousness chooses us, and consciousness determines our consciousness. Now, cast away your fear. Cast away your selfish distractions, questions, and distrust… Liberate your mind. Welcome to the Thriller Paradise. The physical edition of “Thril 253Votes4.2MRecs3.5MFans
- 43 EN Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
